Stage requirements:

Completed the quest "Ram Rider"

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NPC:Welp, a dwarf's word is stronger than our steel itself. Here's your recipe.

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Stage summary:

Brew Dabert's Pickle Brine
Ingridients:
- Medicinal Powder x300
- Pepper x10
- Bay Leaf x10
- Cucumber x10

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NPC:You got the brine?! Bless your soul, finally, give it to me right this instant. What do you mean "no"? Blackmailing old people now, are we?

NPC:Give me the ritual formula you've got, then. Let's see...

NPC:Narayana symbols, probably Hal Hahpaian in origin... Ancient Serpentis symbols... elder runes... Perinoor ornaments...

You:What?! Hal Hahpa? I thought this was just a legend, nothing else...

NPC:That's the same idea most of the world's population has as well, yes. Otherwise that place would be turned into dust and smoldering ruins ages ago.

NPC:But that only makes things worse for you. One of the layers of Necronomicon's curse is taken from the curse of Hal Hahpa, the legendary city of gold.

NPC:In order to actually take a good imprint of the magic there you'll need to figure out the ancient riddle of theirs.

NPC:Your best bet would be to start asking around the Mahadevi library and looking for a specialist for each of these ancient languages, so you can actually make the curse imprints to work with.

NPC:Most unfortunate for you, my dear pickle brine blackmail specialist. If you plan on staying alive then you'll have to find all of the components of your curse. No other way around it.

NPC:Take this scroll. It'll be useful when you'll need to make an actual imprint to look into later. Here's also a list of all the languages that I was able to recognize.

NPC:I can't do anything else to help you, I'm afraid. Now hand over the pickle brine! I'm about to die here.

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NPC:Welcome to my book store, dear magister! Of course the news of your adventures have reached even this place. How can I help you?

NPC:Please let me see the list... Hmm. For Serpentis symbols you're better off contacting Professor Korill. Nachen might be able to help with elder runes. As for Perinoor ornaments, I'd say...

NPC:...Professor Ferdinand De Sossure woudl be your best bet. And, luckily enough, I myself am quite good at Narayanan language.

NPC:Ah, Hal Hahpa... I spent the better years of my life chasing after it. I tried everything any legend ever came up with, from taming yatas to waiting for very specific seconds of the day, but it was all useless.

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